Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man: Or, The Progress of Human Life. Illustrated by Prose and Verse, from the Works of the Most Eminent Writers. With a Brief Memoir of Shakspeare and His Writings |
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Page xviii
... things belonging to this wonderful man , remains in much obscurity . A greater certainty attends the marriage of Shak- speare , who , in his eighteenth year , espoused Annė Hathaway , ( older than himself ) the daughter of a substantial ...
... things belonging to this wonderful man , remains in much obscurity . A greater certainty attends the marriage of Shak- speare , who , in his eighteenth year , espoused Annė Hathaway , ( older than himself ) the daughter of a substantial ...
Page xxvi
... thing of interest in his history . The writer remarks in the conclusion of his preface : " How far the author is qualified for the due execu- tion of his design , remains for the public to decide ; but it may without ostentation be told ...
... thing of interest in his history . The writer remarks in the conclusion of his preface : " How far the author is qualified for the due execu- tion of his design , remains for the public to decide ; but it may without ostentation be told ...
Page xxx
... thing more impressive . Well may we exclaim with a youthful poet- O , mighty BARD ! thy magic lyre , Bears the listening soul away ; Thy potent , spell - like verse of fire , With love can melt , with fear dismay . ' Tis thine , with ...
... thing more impressive . Well may we exclaim with a youthful poet- O , mighty BARD ! thy magic lyre , Bears the listening soul away ; Thy potent , spell - like verse of fire , With love can melt , with fear dismay . ' Tis thine , with ...
Page xxxviii
... thing I am certain of , which is , that they will not contain so much to the purpose , or so elegant as what you have ... things in his writings , that he resembled the dove as much as THE EAGLE . fellows among his favourite seems to ...
... thing I am certain of , which is , that they will not contain so much to the purpose , or so elegant as what you have ... things in his writings , that he resembled the dove as much as THE EAGLE . fellows among his favourite seems to ...
Page xliii
... things according to nature , was common to them all ; but the principle , or moving power to which this faculty was ... thing ! " And finally , as to the fame or reputation of SHAK- SPEARE , it has been increasing ever since his decease ...
... things according to nature , was common to them all ; but the principle , or moving power to which this faculty was ... thing ! " And finally , as to the fame or reputation of SHAK- SPEARE , it has been increasing ever since his decease ...
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affection arms BABE Bard beard beautiful behold Bishop of Landaff blessings blest bliss blood bosom breast Britons character charms child Childhood childish children of men Chimham circumstance dear death delight delineation divine Drake earth eternal eyes fame Father feel felicity fond genius glory grave hand happy hath heart Heaven honour hope hour human immortal Infant interesting JAQUES JOHN EVANS Julius Cæsar Justice Justice of Peace king laws life's live Lord lyre mankind melancholy mind moral MOTHER NATHAN DRAKE nature never o'er OLD AGE Pantaloon parents passion peace period pleasure poet praise Proclus racters religion rise sacred says scene SEVEN AGES SHAK SHAKSPEARE Shakspeare's shalt sighs smile Soldier sorrow soul speak SPEARE spirit Stratford sweet tears tender thee thine things thou thought throne tion tomb truth virtue virtuous voice William Hazlitt wisdom wise writings youth
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Page 28 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 165 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 7 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 116 - Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. ' The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. ' She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Page 98 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew : fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 207 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 155 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 8 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 4 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Page 126 - By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upon this half-faced fellowship ! Wor.